re: New AP Poll

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These polls this early are useless....plenty of time to climb or drop...plenty of time.

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While I agree they are useless, Is there plenty of time to recover?

In the East, Tennessee and South Carolina now have 1 loss and since Cocks were not in the first 2 weeks polls, a playoff spot is all but lost even if they run the rest of the table. Gators could run the table, but with no early poll love, they might get left out at this point. Kentucky could run the table and would never get enough love to get in. Georgia has a shot, but Missouri might be in the same place as Kentucky even tho they have had 2 respectable years.

I offer up 2004 Auburn as example.
Perfect regular season, won SEC CCG, and won Sugar Bowl and still never broke to #2 till after their final game. If memory serves, a big part of the argument on why Auburn never broke the magic ceiling was because they started #17 (AP) and #18 (Coaches) while Georgia and LSU were the top SEC schools early on that year.

While we speak 1 way, history may be the eye opener in the long run. Since the BCS began, how many teams were unranked in the preseason but got to play in the BCS Championship Game?

SEC in the preseason AP
#3 Alabama, #6 Auburn, #9 Georgia, #14 LSU, #17 Ole Miss, #18 Arkansas, #24 Missouri, and #25 Tennessee

SEC in the preseason Coaches
#3 Alabama, #7 Auburn, #9 Georgia, #13 LSU, #15 Ole Miss, #20 Arkansas, #23 Missouri, and #25 Tennessee

Here is a list of undefeated SEC schools currently not ranked.
Florida, Kentucky, and Texas A&M. Florida gets the best odds if they stay undefeated and Texas A&M will probably follow. If UK runs it, they will be TCU or Baylor and get left out. The media mantra will be UK is not a football school so them winning it all just means the rest of the SEC was that bad.